Frederick Burtwell Movies

Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to...

Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls...

A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife,...

Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast...

A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.

“Spy comedy with operatic background.” - BFI.

A Liverpool tug boat captain finds he's won a fortune on the penny pools and it changes his life. However, after giving up his job and throwing a...

After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing...

Two young men start a business selling a homemade hangover recipe.

A run-away school-girl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility.

In turn-of-the-century London a young music publisher fights both competitors and piracy in a time where author's royalties were still unprotected.

While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.

An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of...

A French sleuth in England helps the police solve a series of murders linked by the diary pages of a dead woman.

Paul and Pamela Raymond become immersed in intrigue after receiving a costly jade. As they look for assistance in saving their skins, all their leads...

The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard of musical entertainment. Set in the late 19th and...

Set during the Peninsular Campaign of the Napoleonic War, Mr Midshipman Easy has just joined the Royal Navy. He is very keen to do well but luckily...

An amateur detective tracks down a gang of diamond thieves to Chinatown.

Comedy about two Ruritanian countries who declare war on each other with the mutual intention of losing. Political satire that might have been...

Cockney racing tipster Evans (Miller) is asked by a nouveau riche and socially aspirant couple to train a racehorse they have bought.